Nigella spent £25,000 on flowers for home, jury told

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Nigella Lawson leaves a restaurant in Mayfair with the writer Salman RushdieFrisco/BCR/Vantagenews

Oliver Moody

Last updated at 12:00AM, December 11 2013

Nigella Lawson allowed one of her aides to spend more than £320,000 on one of
Charles Saatchi’s credit cards over four years, a court was told yesterday.
The sum is more than Ms Lawson’s former housekeeper is accused of lavishing
in a fraudulent “spending spree” with a similar card.

Anzelle Wasserman, a personal assistant to the food writer, told the fraud
trial of two of her former colleagues that she had been instructed to spend
nearly £25,000 on flowers and £28,000 on “exclusive VIP” tickets for the
family.

Ms Wasserman appeared yesterday as a witness in the trial of Francesca